Deep-sea microbes can provide clues to the evolution of life on Earth, according to a recent paper in The ISME Journal. Researchers used molecular methods to study these microbes, which thrive in the hot, oxygen-free fluids that flow through Earth’s crust.
Called Hydrothermarchaeota, this group of microbes have never been cultivated in a laboratory for study. A research team from Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, and the Department of Energy Joint Genome...
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